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Whenever You Hear A Politician Carry On About What A Mess The Schools Are, Be Aware That You Are Looking At The Culprit.

Personally, I Think Government Is A Tool, Like A Hammer. You Can Use A Hammer To Build Or You Can Use A Hammer To Destroy; There Is Nothing Intrinsically Good Or Evil About The Hammer Itself. It Is The Purposes To Which It Is Put And The Skill With Which It Is Used That Determine Whether The Hammer's Work Is Good Or Bad.

You Could Probably Prove, By Judicious Use Of Logarithms And Congruent Triangles, That Real Life Is A Lot More Like Soap Opera Than Most People Will Admit.

The Impulse To Make Ourselves Safer By Making Ourselves Less Free Is An Old One ... When We Are Badly Frightened, We Think We Can Make Ourselves Safer By Sacrificing Some Of Our Liberties. We Did It During The Mccarthy Era Out Of Fear Of Communism. Less Liberty Is Regularly Proposed As A Solution To Crime, To Pornography, To Illegal Immigration, To Abortion, To All Kinds Of Threats.

During A Recent Panel On The Numerous Failures Of American Journalism, I Proposed That Almost All Stories About Government Should Begin: “look Out! They're About To Smack You Around Again!